Species Eurylychnus blagravei (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

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• Mecodema blagravei Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [75] [as blagravii for L. Blagrave].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 3 specimens, "mountains", VIC.

  Secondary source:

   Lay, S. 2023. A taxonomic review of the Australian genus Eurylychnus Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini). Zootaxa 5330(2): 247-264 [249] (re-description).
• Percosoma mastersi Rainbow, W.J. 1899. Descriptions of two beetles from Mount Kosciusko. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 147-149 [148].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM, Mt Kosciusko, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1960. Notes on Australian Carabidae (Col.). I A new species of Percosoma Schaum from Victoria. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 95: 173-174 [174]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1964. Australian larval Carabidae of the subfamilies Broscinae, Psydrinae and Pseudomorphinae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 6: 242-246 [243]

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [65]

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